I intend to live forever - so far, so good

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Mostly a good consultation with bankruptcy attorney. Some of the money in the girls' custodial and college accounts may be open to seizure. The attorney doesn't believe it will be much. We stopped putting money in the custodial accounts in 2008 and the court can only go after money in college accounts put in the year prior to filing. He's not sure how far back they can go in terms of the custodial accounts.

That's less than $500.

The wedding ring I fought so hard to get back could be an issue. If it's worth more than $5,000 then it's likely the court will take it and sell it. Even then, I'd likely have a chance to buy it back or at least let my aunt or sister buy it.

Anything to keep it in the family. It was my grandmother's wedding ring.

I'm guessing it's only worth $3,000 and then the trustee might do nothing.

I still will wait until divorce is done to file. Cleaner that way. He assures me that by filing I will be protected from any future loss on the house.

It also helps if I delay the filing for a bit to protect more of the girls assets. I'd like to wait until September 1, to get through the summer -- so I made another credit card payment. I may make the May ones as well and then stop paying.

Email from STBXW this morning. She is accepting a change to summer schedule. D12 wants to go to an overnight marching band camp. It's during one of my four weeks of vacation. I proposed having D12 stay with me a different week to make up for the one I'm going to miss.

Then the week she's gone, I'd just have D8. So I'll have them with me together three weeks. I'll have D8 by herself the other week I'm off and I'll have D12 one week by herself during a week I'll be at work. So I'll have one or the other five of the 10 weeks this summer.

Plus, it'll give the girls three full weeks apart from each other. They, mostly D12, needs that alone time.

My sister emailed. She keeps sending more odd jobs my way. Now, she'd like me to make a customer testimonial video for her company. They have a client in Chicago who'd be willing. Editing video is above me, but a coworker could do it and we may be heading to Chicago in the next couple of weeks.